Wednesday, June 11, 2014

infinity

Warning: This is sort of sticky. Full of sap. 


Some gal friends and I went to the movies last Friday night to see the newly-released Fault in Our Stars. You know, the infamous rave over John Green... 


Tear invoking, for sure. But not nearly as much so as the book. It's always that way, isn't it?

My eyes got all misty when Hazel, the main character who's slowly dying of cancer, shares these words with her boyfriend, Augustus, at his funeral preview. Because he's dying faster. And they've stuck with me:

I am not a mathematician, but I know this: there are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. | John Green

They've stuck with me because something clicked in my head. I understood. I understood how something that is infinite can have a definite beginning and definite end. 

One of those somethings is the atonement of Jesus Christ. The infinite atonement. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. This's the biggest infinity in the Milky Way (and remember to give thanks for the funny things in life, like who ever decided to call our universe the Milky Way). 

The atonement.

Whenever they said that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was "infinite" I didn't understand how something with a beginning and an end could be just that. InfiniteBut it's the same as the infinitesimal numbers between 1 and 2. 

Jesus' sacrifice is infinite. And infinity covers everything. 

With Jesus, we have the biggest infinity. 
Don't take it for granted. 

Trust in Him. 
Know that He's there.
Know that He cares.
Know that He's already won for you.
And He always will.

Always. 







xo.pa




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